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Thread: Virgin VS28 emergency landing at Gatwick

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    Virgin VS28 emergency landing at Gatwick

    SKY News reporting that Virgin VS28 flight from Gatwick to Orlando had to return to the airport and make an emergency landing after smoke reported in cabin about an hour into the flight today. Everyone safe after emergency evacuation but aircraft is blocking the runway so no flights in or out.

    It's one of the new A300 aircraft which developed a technical fault.
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    It was the V27 flight on an A330-300 Airbus with more than 300 people on board. How terrifying. Looks like flights in and out of Gatwick are suspended until 3.00 this afternoon, so this will have knock on effects. Thank goodness everyone landed safely.
    Last edited by ellie; 16-04-2012 at 13:56.
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    UPDATE

    MY daughter and family were on the flight on her way to join us in Florida.

    We have spoken to her and some of the reports seem a bit OTT. There ws no fire that she saw only a bit of smoke at the front section. (Looks as if it was brought in by the A/C system)

    Some people had cuts and grazes from the trip down the chute but all are now being held in a special holding area and not allowed back into the airport.

    Once down the chute she was under the engine and could see a few fumes from that area. They have just been told that the aircraft will be declared safe shortly which means that people will be allowed on board row by row to collect personal items left behind.

    They is currently no news from Virgin about what they plan to do with everyone.

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    Update 16:05 BST

    Just been told that they are not flying today and will be put up in hotel tonight.

    They are trying to put people on planes that have spaces tomorrow.

    Same will apply to people who were due home on that plane from Orlando tonight.

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    So glad to hear your daughter and family are safe and sound, Dave. Better that they returned to Gatwick, just in case. Hope they make it out to Orlando tomorrow.
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    Oh my, how frightening for them.
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    It seems that Virgin are putting on one of the older 747's tomorrow to fly everyone to Orlando that wants to go. Current take off is set for 3:00pm.

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    Are many choosing not to go now?


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    Some are not going but I do not know how many.

    If you see quotes in any of the papers tomorrow from Kirsty Bonwick it because my son called LBC as he had talked to her to give them an update. They then dropped the current program for 15 minutes while they did a phone interview.

    Some of the quotes from that have been picked up by news agencies and now seem to be popping up all over the place.

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    It will be interesting to see the results of the investigation. The Captain obviously thought it was urgent to evacuate the plane quickly and thus deploy the chutes.

    The couple of minor injuries that Virgin announced at first, turned out to be 14 with broken limbs/ribs etc.


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